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PacLII stands for the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute. It is an initiative of the University of the South Pacific School of Law with assistance from AustLII. PacLII is a signatory to the Montreal Declaration on Public Access to Law and participates in the Free Access to Law movement, (FALM) a grouping of a number of world wide organizations committed to publishing and providing access to the law for free. PacLII is based at the Emalus Campus of the USP in Port Vila, Vanuatu.
USP School of Law is based in Port Vila and has students located across 12 countries of the Pacific who do not have easy access to the legal materials from across the region which they need to undertake their studies. PacLII was started by the School of Law as a means to overcoming the tyrannies of distance. It has grown to become a service to governments, legal professionals, NGOs, students, academics and members of the public and has been widely recognized as an example of excellence in promoting access to legal information.
PacLII collects and publishes legal materials from 20 Pacific Islands Countries on its website www.paclii.org which is hosted by AustLII. These countries are American Samoa, Cook Islands, Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Guam, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, New Caledonia, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Pitcairn Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.
The materials consist mainly of primary materials such as court decisions and legislation but also include decisions of various tribunals, panels, Ombudsmens reports or secondary information such as court rules or bench books. PacLII is now seeking to expand its collections to include law related materials such as subject specific papers and reports. PacLII is also developing a series of subject specific libraries utilising predetermined search technology. An Intellectual Property and a Maritime Law Library have been created and more are planned. A number of Pacific Islands Treaties are also available but direct access to the database has been suspended due to a current lack of capacity.
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Displaying 216 - 220 of 298Land Registration Regulation 1999.
This Regulation implements provisions of the Land Registration Act with respect to documentation of procedures for the registration of titles in land. Regulation 3 sets out general requirements for documents lodged with the Registrar. A State lease shall be prepared on suitable material of a quality approved by the Registrar, and in accordance with the requirements of the Act.
Land (Ownership of Freeholds) Regulation 1977.
The Regulation implements provisions of the Land (Ownership of Freeholds) Act 1976 with respect to lease and registration of title in freehold land. Article 2 concerns the application by the owner of any freehold land or the holder of any frustrated right for the grant of a substitute lease in substitution for his freehold interest or frustrated right. Article 5 provides with respect to notices of objection. A substitute lease granted in accordance with a proposal shall be in Form 3.
Landlord and Tenant (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1975.
This Act regulates some aspects of the (non) contractual relationship between landlord and tenant such as compensation for use and occupation in case of land held not by written agreement (deed), no obligation of attornment by the lessee under the lease in case of a conveyance of the reversion or remainder expectant or depending on a lease of any land, attornment by a lessee to a third party without consent of the lessor, rent, obligation of lessors' covenants and rent and benefit of lessees' covenants.
Land Regulation 1999.
The Regulation implements provisions of the Land Act 1996 with respect permitted dealings, rent on leases, survey fees, payment for improvements, etc. and prescribes forms.
Land (Tenure Conversion) Regulation 1964.
For the purposes of Section 7 of the Land (Tenure Conversion) Act, an application for registration shall be in the form in the Schedule to this Regulation. Subject to this Act, a citizen may apply to the Commission in the prescribed form for registration in his or its name of any customary land or of an interest in customary land.
Implements: Land (Tenure Conversion) Act 1963. (2006)